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Ad Finem

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I like to think this friendship that we hold     As youth's high gift in our two hands to-day     Still shall we find as bright, untarnished gold     What time the fleeting years have left us grey.     I like to think we two shall watch the May     Dance down her happy hills and Autumn fold     The world in flame and beauty, we grown old     Staunch comrades on an undivided way.     I like to think of Winter nights made bright     By book and hearth-flame when we two shall smile     At memories of to-day--we two content     To count our vanished dawns by candle-light     Seeing we hold in our old hands the while     The gift of gold youth left us as she went.

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